Lars has put together The Complete Kiteboarding Training Guide, and it’s now available for you to download for free! That’s right… it’s yours 100% free of charge!

Why You Should Download this Guide

In the words of Lars himself, “The Complete Kiteboarding Training Guide is your new training bible”! You can use it at home or in the gym, and it’s not just for the pros. There are programs in it for all levels of kiteboarders. Beginners, wave riders, freestylers, wakestylers, wake skaters, course racers, landkiters, snowkiters, freeriders, newschoolers, oldschool freestylers… all will benefit from the right training. The Complete Kiteboarding Training Guide will teach you how to become a stronger and more powerful kiteboarder at the level you are at, while minimizing your risk of injury. If you want to progress, this guide is a “must have”.

In all other sports, pro athletes engage in highly developed sport specific functional training in addition to the actual training they do for their discipline. Pro athletes have strictly planned training programs laid out 6-18 months in advance, with several resting periods and various levels of exercise intensity, depending on when their next competitions are. Athletes do this to ensure they are in peak condition at competitions, and to minimize their risk of injury… and of course to progress! More pros in kiteboarding have opened themselves up to functional training as a way to improve, and it’s slowly spreading throughout the industry. However we’re still way behind other sports, and this is possibly one of the reasons why there are so many injuries in kiteboarding.

KiteboardingExercises.com, or just KBX is a website dedicated to making you a better kiteboarder through sport specific training and rehab, and you get all this cooked up in the kiteboard training guide!

Outdoor Training Program

In the latest version of this training guide (V3), Lars has added an outdoor training program which you can execute in a public park or playground. Here’s a video with some of the highlights.

So, get your complete training guide now!

About the Author

Lars Jørgensen has been working in the fitness industry since 2002. His specialty is rehab, posture and sports specific training. He has a bachelor’s degree in nutrition & health, and a number of smaller certifications in training physiology. He’s been managing personal trainers since 2008 and he educates personal trainers in sales, physiology, nutrition, dynamic mobilization and coaching in both Denmark and Sweden. He started KiteboardingExercises.com because he believes there’s a need for training education in kitesurfing.

We’d love to hear your thoughts on the Kiteboarding Training Guide, and whether it has helped you take your kiteboarding to the next level. If you have any training tips and advice of your own, as always, please share them in the comments below.

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The Complete Kiteboarding Training Guide was published by inMotion Kitesurfing.

Lars is has been in the fitness industry since 2002, and runs a successful website called KiteboardingExercises.com.

Why is Training Important for kiteboarders?

Regardless if you do hooked-in or unhooked freestyle moves, it’s all about fast rotations and powerful movements. On the water there are too many uncontrolled factors that will make your muscle “workout” less effective than in the gym. In the gym you can concentrate on a specific muscle chain or a specific movement. In the gym you can train these muscles to be stronger, which will give you more power for your tricks on the water. Do you want to rotate faster? Pop higher? Pass faster? Going to the gym or working out at home really will pay off.

The Roll Out: Unhooked Power

This is a typical roll out. It’s a great exercise to get more power for riding unhooked. A roll out is a perfect exercise for those kitesurfers who want to learn handle passes or get more power and speed in their handle passes. It can be done at home or in the gym. If you do it at home and don’t have a barbell as shown in the images, you can do a “glide out” instead. Find a floor that you can slide on and use a folded t-shirt or something similar, to glide out instead of rolling.

Warm Up

A good warm up for this exercise, would be to do 3×10 pushups and 30 seconds of arm swings for each arm. This should warm up all the relevant muscles and the shoulder joint.

Roll Out Steps

The Exercise

Now start doing the exercise, by getting down on your knees and grabbing the barbell, as shown in image 1. It’s really important that you don’t flex your hip at any point! You can get a back pain, if you don’t flex your glutes and your abs. Think of squeezing your butt cheeks together, as if you are “holding” a coin back there. Your back and your hips should be straight at all times. The only joints that should be moving are your shoulders (and secondary your knees). Now roll out as far as you can, and pull the barbell back as explosively as you can. This is a powerful bar to hip movement that will help you make your first pass or get you more speed and power in your passes.

Watch the Roll Out Video

If you have any questions regarding this exercise, or you have your own techniques to improve your strength for kiteboarding, let us know in the comments below.

Visit the KBX Website for more great training exercises.

Written by

Lars Rousing Jørgensen

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Kiteboarding Exercises: The Roll Out was published by inMotion Kitesurfing.

Here’s the big home truth! To keep progressing with kiteboarding – you’re going to have to put in some fitness training.

The beauty is – training should make you feel amazing. If it doesn’t then it’s wrong. This doesn’t mean it’s lazy, soft or easy – NO – you just have to be exercising at “Benefit Intensity”, but more about that in coming articles…

So you’re going to Get FIT – Functional Intelligent Training!

Nick Morris in the Media

My name is Nick Morris – many people call me the ‘Function Junction’ – as they profess I’m the King of Functional Fitness. I’ve trained Olympic athletes, World Champions and ‘superstars’ of Hollywood and been featured in loads of TV shows, magazines and newspaper articles – but more important than all of that – I’m an Action Sports fan just like you – my happiest time in life is in the surf or in the pow (snow for those who don’t snowboard or ski… :)).

Nick Morris

I want to share my knowledge and experience with you, and want to hear your experiences and questions so together we can all progress and have even more fun doing what we love doing.

Kitesurf Training – The Next Level

My system of fitness is called “FIT” Functional Intelligent Training. My mission is to get you FIT to “Be Juiced”! There’s too much fun out there to waste any training time, and life is too important not to get amazing results from your training.

Functional Intelligent Training – is all about the ultimate training efficiency and effectiveness. Hey – we all want to be active having fun, not training – but getting FIT is what’s going to drive

Cell Action

your kitesurfing progression and get you “Juiced”!

The most important thing to understand is what we are really made up of… simply trillions of cells all combined and connected together. Here’s a flash way to say it: We’re CONCATENATED (a series of interconnected things).

So principle one: Train with respect to your combined and connected systems. ie. Train as a WHOLE!

It all starts from your CORE

• Your CORE muscles
• Your CORE mindset
• Your CORE nutrition
• Your CORE recovery

Core Training

Remember your CORE is not just your midsection muscles. It’s also your Nervous System and Mindset.

In coming articles I will delve deeper into the four primary CORE principles and how you can include these in your workout to help take your kitesurfing to the next level, so stay tuned for more!

Get FIT & Be Juiced!

Written by

Nick Morris
PineappleFIT

Kitesurfing Training: Rotate Faster, Pop Higher, Pass Faster… Get FIT! was published by inMotion Kitesurfing.